Monty Roberts, The Man Who Listens to Horses

As a child, Monty Roberts witnessed horses being "broken" by traditional, violent methods and also experienced abuse from his father which led him to look for kinder ways to deal with horses.

He spent a lot of time studying how horses behave in the wild and how they respond in the herd situation.

This led him to experiment with using the horse's natural instincts in ways that he could start to build an understanding
and communicate with the horse in it's own language - which he terms "Equus" and which earned him the title of the
horse whisperer.